Narrative and Consciousness: Literature, Psychology and the Brain - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0195161726 ISBN 13: 9780195161724

Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2003

Riassunto

The evocation of narrative as a way to understand the content of consciousness, including memory, autobiography, self, and imagination, has sparked truly interdisciplinary work among psychologists, philosophers, and literary critics. Even neuroscientists have taken an interest in the stories people create to understand themselves, their past, and the world around them. The research presented in this volume should appeal to researchers enmeshed in these problems, as well as the general reader with an interest in the philosophical problem of what consciousness is and how it functions in the everyday world.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Gary D. Fireman and Ted E. McVay are both at Texas Tech University. Owen J. Flanagan is at Duke University.

Contenuti:

• 1: Introduction
• Part I: The role of narrative in the development of conscious awareness
• 2: Narrative and the emergence of a consciousness of self
• 3: The development of self
• Part II: Narrative and the autobiographical memory
• 4: The role of narrative in recollection: A view from cognitive psychology and neuropsychology
• 5: Material selves: Bodies, memory and autobiographical narrating
• Part III: Autobiographical narrative, fiction and the construction of self
• 6: Rethinking the fictive, reclaiming the real: Autobiography, narrative time and the burden of truth
• 7: Dual-focalization, retrospective fictional autobiography, and the ethics of Lolita
• Part IV: Narrative disruptions in the construction of self
• 8: The pursuit of death in holocaust narrative
• 9: Community and coherence: narrative contributions to the psychology of conflict and loss
• Part V: The neural substrate of narrative and consciousness realization (or the naturalist model)
• 10: Empirical Evidence for a Narrative Concept of Self
• 11: Sexual Identities and Narratives of Self

Su questa edizione

• Editore: OUP Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0195161726
• ISBN 13: 9780195161724
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 264
• Redattore: Fireman Gary D., McVay Jr Ted E., Flanagan Owen J.